What do you do to entertain yourself while on ML?

[bowies]

I feel like I'm stuck in the Groundhog Day movie...reliving the same day over and over again. How are you/did you entertain yourself while home on maternity leave? I'm already annoyed with TV.

[browneyedgirl9]

TV...lots and lots of TV. And many trips to target.

I also joined a new moms group that got together once a week.

[Jalapeñomel]

I watched a lot of TV. And I played Tapped Out on my phone.


I desperately wanted to read, but I kept falling asleep.

[jr009j]

I went to the mall a lot. Easy to walk around, lots of places to nurse, access to coffee and if DD cried, it wasn't as obnoxious. Of course, I probably spent too much.

[cricketwife]

It was just survival. The was a lot of Tv and gbcn while feeding the baby.

[osulori]

Trips to Target, the mall, moms group, or stuff with my mom until she went back to work (she's a teacher's aide and AJ is a July baby).

[magpie]

I took lots and lots of walks. I also went to breastfeeding support group (mostly just for company/having somewhere to go), wandered around the mall and watched quite a but of tv. I also read and listened to audiobooks.

[Deleted]

Well I did a ton of pumping and sleeping but after 8ish weeks I tried to be out of the house for a few hours a day, my H was working from home and our condo was tiny so I went anywhere - park, mall, etc.

[h]

Met friends for lunch or to hang out, shopped or just walked around the mall, walked around the hike and bike trails with baby, went to a few of the mom and baby movies at the movie theater, did a few projects around the house (reorganized closets, cleaned out the pantry, organized photos, etc.), did some crafty stuff (needlepoint, repainted some furniture), traveled to visit family and to the beach, worked a little bit (for my job).

[justjen]

TV
Books
So much GBCN

[glitzy07]

Like others, lots of tv, lots of Target and BRU trips just to get out of the house. I was lucky in that my H worked all 6am-2pm shifts during my ML, so I wasn't home alone for too long.

I visited my work friends twice and met up with friends that don't have a "normal" 9-5 schedule.

[biogirl21]

I was pretty content with Netflix, Hulu and GBCN. It was horrible this winter so I didn't really want to leave the house much.

[jeaniebueller]

I don't bored with tv and with an older child I haven't been able to sit around as much as I want. We go to the park, take walks, go shopping, work on home projects. That is about it.

[pinotgrig]

Lots of tv
GNCN
I try to read but like jalapeño said, keep falling asleep
Some trips to target
Lots of cleaning - for once in my adult life I have a cleaning schedule

Eta - According to my baby tracking app, I spend a little over 4 hours a day bf'ing (!!!). So there's that too.

[countthestars]

We left the house daily. I could not sit in my house all day (plus we had contractors here so...)

Mall
Dunkin Donuts
Mom's group
Park
Drive around while baby slept
Walk to get mail

[natablue]

Jul 19, 2014 21:02:40 GMT -5 cricketwife said:

It was just survival. The was a lot of Tv and gbcn while feeding the baby.

This. DS was born in the dead of winter, so I didn't leave the house much for a long time.

I watched a lot of TV, GBCN and basically held him for the first month straight, because he refused to be put down, ever. I also shopped on amazon. A lot.

Once it warmed up enough to venture outside and I got a little more confident, we went to target occasionally, or grabbed lunch with friends.

[lulu21]

Tv, target, walks around the neighborhood, more tv, more target...

[starlily]

My plan is:

TV
Gbcn
Books
Walks/working out
Chasing food trucks
Costco/Target
Home organization projects

[ladygrey]

I tried to leave the house every day, even if it was just a trip to Target or a walk around the park. I also went to LLL meetings and a new moms group.

[hetty]

Veronica Mars, GBCN, and 2048!

[niq]

Msniq watched a lot of TV. She meet up with one or two mom friends per week, she went for walks, she knit baby clothes, she made dinner.

I was on PL for two months starting at age 5.5m. I watched Baby Signing Time with him, I went running with him in the BOB, I went to story time like three times per week, once in a while I met up with moms from our new parents group.

[wannabe]

You know my ass doesn't belong on this board when my initial response to the post title is "WTF, ML doesn't have enough drama for you people?"

I should just stay over there.

[booboo173]

Initially I watched a lot of tv but then got bored with it.
Browsed the Internet
Tried to have somewhat of a schedule which helped
Held him a lot
Once it got nicer ( winter baby) tried to walk or go out once a day
I ended up having a ton of appts during my leave at least once a week which kept me busy

[chickadee77]

Am I the only one that is just praying to sleep as much as possible? Also? Going out right now? HAHAHAHA. My kid is eating every hour or two. I wonder if I'll ever get to leave the house again.

[Deleted]

I am now on Season 8 of Friends

[jeaniebueller]

Jul 19, 2014 22:02:09 GMT -5 natablue said:

Jul 19, 2014 21:02:40 GMT -5 cricketwife said:

It was just survival. The was a lot of Tv and gbcn while feeding the baby.

This. DS was born in the dead of winter, so I didn't leave the house much for a long time.

I watched a lot of TV, GBCN and basically held him for the first month straight, because he refused to be put down, ever. I also shopped on amazon. A lot.

Once it warmed up enough to venture outside and I got a little more confident, we went to target occasionally, or grabbed lunch with friends.

This was totally my experience on ML with DS, lol.

[sent]

GBCN, other Internet reading, some TV, and a lot of comfort eating. Pretty sure I was really depressed due to being unable to go out in the nasty winter, a husband who didn't understand how trying taking care of a newborn was,all day, everyone in my life giving me crap for thinking I could maybe even step out into the hallway with my newborn, nursing struggles, and having to start ML unexpectedly 2 months early so I couldn't tie up major loose ends a work before I had to leave.

Next baby will be a planned spring baby. There is no other way.

[mlvmd]

I finished grad school. I was supposed to have been done but DS came super early. I missed one of each of my classes while in the hospital. My mom or DH would drive me to class and then walk DS around campus. When I was at home I was writing papers and presentations. I also went all over the state with my mom looking for real estate and then after she left I did all the inspections for her. I was only off for 8 weeks so the time flew. There was also a snow superstorm in there and we hosted Christmas for everyone.

To say that I am imagining this ML to be so different would be the understatement of the century.

[thebreakfastclub]

I was so over it by the end. There are only so many closets and drawers to reorganize. I went out for breakfast every few days and ran pointless errands.

[MamaMaui24]

It's still watching "tv" but I loved going to the baby matinees. See if any of your movie theaters offer them.